International and Emerging Markets Blog
Monday, January 05, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
global,
India Watch,
South Asia Group,
deals,
Anuj Chande,
economic,
Pankaj Karna
The year 2008 witnessed a global economic downturn due to the subprime credit crisis, fluctuating commodity and equity prices and the closure of numerous investment banks and other financial institutions. Despite recent events, M&A and Private Equity Investment (PE) activity in India has seen some of the largest deals in sectors including Microfinance, Automotive and Oil & Gas, showing a significant increase in the type of sectors available in the Indian market.
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Sunday, January 04, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
global,
India Watch,
infrastructure,
aim,
economic
As India enters into 2009, the opportunity arises to look back on the unprecedented year just passed – a year in which social, political and economic factors all contributed to a testing year for India.
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
finance,
India Watch,
Glenn Stone,
infrastructure,
South Asia Group,
deals
India’s infrastructure problems have been widely reported. Airports are congested, railways are crowded, ports are clogged. Electricity shortages are common and a public healthcare system is practically non existent.
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Friday, January 02, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
global,
India Watch,
infrastructure,
deals,
Jonathan Morris,
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP,
Mark Lewis
Whilst it will hardly come as a surprise that there is little to no current activity for Indian clients in the equity capital markets, we do see Indian infrastructure groups looking ahead to possible IPOs in London later this year or in early 2010. Time will tell as to whether the markets will be open by then.
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Thursday, January 01, 2009 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
global,
India Watch,
LSE,
South Asia Group,
aim,
Fiona Owen
Grant Thornton’s latest India Watch index reveals that, despite the current tough market conditions, Indian companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) are still collectively outperforming both the AIM 100 and the AIM all-share by a wide margin.
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